Get the BCC field back in Outlook 2003

I was pulling my hair out the other day when I wanted to blind carbon copy someone an email. If you have never used it before the BCC field allows you to send the message to multiple recipients without revealing who you sent the message to.

For example if I sent a message to Dave, and Sally, and BCCed Mark…Then Dave and Sally would know they both got the message…but would have no idea that I also sent it to Mark.

Here is where the frustration is. I start a new message and the BCC field is just gone

I felt like I clicked every option and every menu and I could not find a way to get it back. For a while I thought maybe for some crazy reason Microsoft removed it from this version of Outlook.

Then I accidentally clicked the little arrow next to options…no not the options button (That brings up a totally different window)…but the little arrow next to it!

Doing that brings down the menu that allows you to easily add the BCC field back to your email. Clicking on BCC adds it below the others

The nice part is you only need to do this once, and now every time you create, or open a message the BCC field is there.

I’m having a different problem with the Bcc field in Outlook 2003 running under Windows 7. My cousin uses the Bcc field exactly the way you described it on your website, so that we recipients don’t see all of the addresses that she’s sending the message to. Under Windows XP, when I received the message, Outlook translated the Bcc field into “Undisclosed-recipients,” which appeared in the To field, the Bcc field was blank, and the message and attachments were perfectly fine. Under Windows 7, both the To and Bcc fields are blank, and the message includes all of the routing ind other HTML commands and formatting, making it completely unreadable. I have installed Office 2003 SP3 under both XP and 7, and yet Outlook has this problem under 7 and not XP. Is there another fix for this so that it will translate the addresses properly under 7?

Thanks! But now, how does one see the bcc line in their own email? I sent an email with a bcc recipient, but can’t see the bcc line…so, later on, when I check back on this email, I will not know that I included a bcc because it does not appear as it should!

Thank you so much. I was going mad trying to resolve this. Other sites gave all sorts of incorrect solutions, which i tried. I tried absolutely everything! Even Microsoft seem to giving out the wrong information. What a stupid place to hide From and Bcc!!! Thanks again!